Birds in your garden

ksebruce · 15-04-2008, 07:34 AM

Hi, thought I'd start a thread to find out what birds funsters get in their gardens.

Oor feeding station is stocked with peanuts, fatballs, mixed seed and niger seeds, we get the following:-

Great tits
Blue tits
Coal tits
Long tailed tits
Black caps
Dunnocks
green finches
Gold finches
Bull finches
Chaffinch
Black birds
Great spotted woodpecker
Siskins

Lindy-C · 15-04-2008, 08:54 AM

We have many of the above and a couple families of these little chaps too........
great fun to watch (when they aren't using my car as an assault course

)

Jim · 15-04-2008, 09:29 AM

We have all of the above apart from the Siskins which I have never heard of, we may have and I just don't know them. In addition we have a pair of Red Kites. (There are literally hundreds of pairs in The Cambrian Mountains and Ceredigion) I was reading on motorhomefacts that one of their members saw a Red Kite take another bird in the air, I am sure they are mistaken. I have never seen "ours" do this, they are carrion eaters only. Throughout the summer the Crows and the Kites have epic battles, the crows almost always win, normally through sheer persistence and because they have a tag team whereas the Kite is almost always battling alone, great to watch though, some times the fights bring them very low and

In the summer the Kites often swoop low over the kids when they are in "their" field and have the dog with them.

Lindy-C · 15-04-2008, 09:40 AM

Forgot the buzzards.............the rabbits tend to keep a low profile when they are hanging about

Messy eaters though, they leave bits of their dinner scattered all over the place - have even found ears and paws on the rooves of the motorhomes!

Don Madge · 15-04-2008, 01:08 PM

This little fellow visits us most mornings.

Don

Lindy-C · 15-04-2008, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Don Madge

This little fellow visits us most mornings.

Don

Funny looking bird!

Want to borrow my air rifle?

highwayman · 15-04-2008, 01:22 PM

We get,
sparrows
blue tits
starlings
ring necked doves
blackbirds
thrushes
green finches
green parakeets
an occasional woodpecker
and once a sparrow hawk

oh and next door had a heron visit,
it stayed just long enough to empty their pond

regards....nige

dylan · 15-04-2008, 01:32 PM

Besides all those mentioned we also get flycatchers (arrive about April time), nuthatches, willow tits, tree creepers and of course the Dippers in the stream and the kingfishers by the pond.
Most of the Owls are here and are just starting to call at night again. Would like to have a cuckoo but not as yet. As Jim said most birds of prey are here but I could do without losing any more chicken to the Goshawk.

dylan · 15-04-2008, 01:33 PM

No green parakeets here !

dylan · 15-04-2008, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lindy-C

We have many of the above and a couple families of these little chaps too........
great fun to watch (when they aren't using my car as an assault course

)

Is that a red legged partridge?